Mandy Eduque, Automobile Association Philippines director, likes to quote an Australian traffic consultant of a public works project who made this stunning observation: For Filipino drivers, traffic lights are merely “a suggestion.”
The city does not know exactly why the traffic signals went on the fritz Wednesday, cutting the time that lights stayed green and allowing cars to only trickle through intersections. “This is a freak incident that happened,” Mani Poola, the city’s traffic engineer, said yesterday. In his 18 years in Stamford, he said he had never seen anything like it.
The Bush administration must write tougher fuel-economy regulations for sport-utility vehicles, minivans and pickups that take into account greenhouse-gas pollution, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety unveiled a new tool on Thursday that will help them bust speeders. Mobile radar units will now be popping up all over the state.
